Cultivator



(No Model.) N. H. VOG-Tl' GULTIVATOR.

N0. 352,898. Patented-NOV. 16, 1886.

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SPECIFICATIONfornIring part 'of Letters Patent No. 352,898, dated November 16, 1886.

` Application filed August 12, l886. Serial No. 210,748. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, NICHOLAS HENRY VOGT, of Goffs, in the county of Nemaha and State of Kansas, have invented a new and In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan, and Fig. 2 a side View, of my cultlvator.v

The cultivator is designed and adapted to straddle a row of corn and out and` pulverize the soil between the rows. l. Y The frame of my cultivator is formed, mainly, of two longitudinal parallel beams or runners, A A, and` two cross-bars, B and B', which are attached to their rear ends. The beams are rounded or curved at their front ends, to adapt them to pass easily over ordinary obstructions, such `as stubble, roots, clods, and

small stones. The middle portion of the under `or bearing surface of the runners A is cut ont, thus forming a recess, a, as shown 1n Fig. 2, to accommodate the cultivatingbl'ades 1 l.

The latter are thin, oblo'ng, hardenedor steel plates. One is attached at its front end to each beam A, just in front of the recess a, and each is twisted or curved spirally inward, and also'inclined downward and rearward at an angle of about thirty degrees. Their free ends thus extend inward beneath the recessed portion of the runners A, but below the plane of their bearing-surface, as shownA in Fig. 2, so that the blades cut somewhat deeply into the furrows between therows of listed corn, and

Valso throw toward the latter a portion of the y soil thus loosened.

The recess provides a space above the blades l 1, or between them and the beams A, through which some of the loosened soil passes laterally outward over the ends of 'said blades, and is thus spread in i the path of the rear set of blades, 2 2. Both the rear sets, 2 2 and 3 3, are nearly the same 5o in form and general arrangement and operation as the front blades, 1 l, but are moreY sharply curved, and placed so as to work in a Ahigher plane, and also at different distances from the path of the blades l 1. In other 55 Words, the blades 2 2 are attached to the ends of crossbar B, and the rear blades, 3 3, to the ends of the longer cross-bar B'. Blades 2 2 cut the sides, and blades 3 3 thetop, of the ridges of the twocorn-rows adjacent to the 6c one being cultivated, and also work some soil inward toward the latter, or into the path of blades l 1.

The drivers seat consists of a board, C, attached to and supported on the horizontal 65 portions of the parallel bent rods D, whose legs are attached to the beams A A. The devices` for attaching the seat C are in the nature of clamps b, which permit it to be shifted forward or back on the rods D D, to enable the 7o driver to apply his weight where required. A single handle,.E, is attached to the crossbars B B', for use in manipulatingthe culti vator.

1. In a cultivator, the combination, with the beams A A and the rear cross-bars, 'of the inwardly-curved and downwardly-inclined vblades l 1, attached to their middle portion,

and the two sets of similarly curved and in- 8o clined blades 2 l2 and 3 3, which are attached to the respective crossbars B and B', and arranged at a higher plane than said blades 1 1, and at different distances from the path of the beams, as shown and described, to operate as 85 y as specilied.

. Y NICHOLAS HENRY VOGT. Witnesses:

. H. G. PIOKETT, WILY RREED. 

